Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012.

Gembrook Hill Blanc de Blancs 2012
$115, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.

This is a seriously fantastic bottle of Australian sparkling wine. In short, it’s the duck’s guts; it would stand up in any company, the world over. It tastes of musk and apples and citrus and stonefruit and, much more so, of savoury, floral, umami-like characters. Excuse the poetic flourish, but this wine tastes like a long journey into a furnace of flavour. It tastes like wine, stunning in its undress. It. Well. Basically. It tastes magnificent. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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